Sunday, September 20, 2009

More on that CNN attack ad against Fox News

It would have been better if CNN didn’t cover last week’s tea party in Washington, DC.

As I wrote previously, CNN has a rock-solid case against the Fox News claim that it didn’t cover the event – Its on-the-scene correspondent was frequently shouted down in what became an 800K+ viewed YouTube moment.

After looking at CNN celebrity Anderson Cooper’s coverage of the tea party, though, I almost think the network would have been fairer if it simply ignored the party altogether.  All the talking points are in here: Racism, extremism, we’ve never seen anything like this before (we’ve seen much worse, Mr. Gergen), blah blah blah …

Topics: cnn, anderson-cooper, glenn-beck, fox-news